"Kevin Grittner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 5:47 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> And after
>> each archive_timeout, we test to see if we need to flush the current WAL
>> segment out to the archive; which is determined by whether the write
>> pointer is currently exactly at the start of a segment or not.
> Hmmm... We would actually prefer to get the WAL file at the
> specified interval.
Well, if it's a feature not a bug, that's fine with me. I wonder though
how predictable the behavior will really be with 8.3's distributed
checkpoints ... you might need to find another way anyhow.
regards, tom lane
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